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  2. Aquifer - Wikipedia

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    Schematic of an aquifer showing confined zones, groundwater travel times, a spring and a well. An aquifer is an underground layer of water-bearing material, consisting of permeable or fractured rock, or of unconsolidated materials (gravel, sand, or silt). Aquifers vary greatly in their characteristics.

  3. Hydraulic conductivity - Wikipedia

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    An aquifer is called semi-confined when a saturated layer with a relatively small horizontal hydraulic conductivity (the semi-confining layer or aquitard) overlies a layer with a relatively high horizontal hydraulic conductivity so that the flow of groundwater in the first layer is mainly vertical and in the second layer mainly horizontal.

  4. SahysMod - Wikipedia

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    The aquifer has mainly horizontal flow. Pumped wells, if present, receive their water from the aquifer only. The flow in the aquifer is determined in dependence of spatially varying depths of the aquifer, levels of the water table, and hydraulic conductivity. SahysMod permits the introduction of phreatic and semi-confined aquifers

  5. Specific storage - Wikipedia

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    For a confined aquifer or aquitard, storativity is the vertically integrated specific storage value. Specific storage is the volume of water released from one unit volume of the aquifer under one unit decline in head. This is related to both the compressibility of the aquifer and the compressibility of the water itself.

  6. List of aquifers in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Aquifers of the United States Withdrawal rates from the Ogallala Aquifer.. This is a list of some aquifers in the United States.. Map of major US aquifers by rock type. An aquifer is a geologic formation, a group of formations, or a part of a formation that contains sufficient saturated permeable material to yield significant quantities of water to groundwater wells and springs.

  7. Artesian well - Wikipedia

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    An artesian well is a well that brings groundwater to the surface without pumping because it is under pressure within a body of rock or sediment known as an aquifer. [1] When trapped water in an aquifer is surrounded by layers of impermeable rock or clay, which apply positive pressure to the water, it is known as an artesian aquifer. [1]

  8. Aquifer properties - Wikipedia

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    The aquifer properties of the aquifer essentially depend upon the composition of the aquifer.The most important properties of the aquifer are porosity and specific yield which in turn give its capacity to release the water in the pores and its ability to transmit the flow with ease.

  9. Fault zone hydrogeology - Wikipedia

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    The gif shows how fault, induced by seismic events, propagates into a confined aquifer. [31] And fluid of the confined aquifer fills the fault zone and precipitates minerals. [31] Mineralization blocks further fluid movement. Repeated seismic events can deposit economically vulnerable vein structured ore deposit.